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royiv

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  1. My wife keeps a list of potential puppy names in the notes app on her phone. She probably has more than 100 at this point. We’ll be prepared when it’s time for the next pup. Our current dog came from the rescue with a name and we thought it fit him perfectly so we kept it.
  2. We had a dog that was getting old and going on periodic hunger strikes so my wife would cook up a big container of ground turkey and rice to mix in with his food when he was refusing to eat. One night I get home late from work travel and the easiest thing I can find in the fridge is the turkey and rice. I nuked it in the microwave, poured a generous amount of sriracha and added some salt and pepper and tore into it. It was pretty damn tasty and I would eat it periodically when my options in the fridge were limited. The dog was not amused that I was stealing his food.
  3. Did you miss the proposed legislation to ban porn?
  4. It’s a good place to let off steam, keep up with current events and commiserate with a community.
  5. The livery will be much tackier than that. Not nearly enough gold, MAGA or 45-47.
  6. You’re right, posting on Surly is an effective form of resistance. What starts here changes the world and all that.
  7. But we have lawyers on this board who will die on the hill that they self police their profession. So if a Trump cunt, who also happens to be a lawyer, is issuing legal opinions out of a conflict of interest, the profession should be taking care of that problem amongst themselves, but here we are.
  8. royiv

    Leone PP XIV

    To be fair to him, he did just take on a new name at the age of 69.
  9. It’s not even a blip on the radar screen for the vast majority of Americans. I bet if you surveyed 100 Americans the number that would have even the tiniest amount of familiarity with this event would be in the single digits.
  10. HIPPO violation.
  11. Things are not okay and this is the sort of bullshit that reflects poorly on the entire legal profession. Why are we not hearing from lawyers up in arms that their profession is being trashed by bad actors all over the place in this regime? Instead we see firms bending the knee.
  12. How is Pam Bondi, an attorney formerly (assumption that it’s formerly, it would not shock me if it’s currently) on the payroll of the Qatari government writing opinions on the legality of accepting a 747-8i as a gift not a conflict of interest? We keep being told that the legal profession isn’t in any sort of ethical crisis and they police themselves.
  13. No. Nelson Mandela out front should have told you.
  14. My wife works for a large American manufacturer and is a licensed interior designer. She has never stepped foot inside one of her company’s factories.
  15. It’s been a week since we’ve heard from @choripan. Should we be concerned or is he distracted trying to figure out how to get a Ukrainian lass into the country?
  16. New brain worms incoming.
  17. Junior fucked Stormy, too?
  18. So am I not to believe that your position is that lawyers are required to report unethical behavior and that this happens with a high degree of certainty? Am I not to believe that your position is that lawyers police themselves and root out bad actors from reading this statement? Am I not to believe that you don’t think the legal profession is in any sort of crisis, ethical or otherwise? If I’ve misunderstood you, apologies, and I would be open to hearing what your actual position is.
  19. Guessing he doesn’t have a hog like Hunter.
  20. Clearly no one is doing it effectively because our system is circling the drain and the lawyers are doing jack shit about it. Instead of kowtowing to Trump, maybe some of those Big Law firms could redirect those resources of time and money into advancing actionable solutions.
  21. I don’t include Brisket in that group. He’s a realist and speaks the truth on these matters. You, on the other end of the spectrum, come across as a smug lawyer who is the most back pattingest back patter out there.
  22. You, yourself are the one telling us that the legal profession polices itself so things are a-okay. As far as justice reforms go, here are a few that I would like to see. 1. Get rid of private prisons. 2. Ensure adequate representation for all. The deck is stacked heavily in favor of people with money. Our system is pay to play. It’s also heavily in favor of white people. 3. Move money from mass incarceration to rehabilitation and reentry programs. 4. Speed shit the fuck up. The wheels of justice move excruciatingly slow. 5. And, this is a big one, I’d like to see the judicial branch uphold the constitution and bring accountability to an unchecked executive branch.
  23. Instead of the legal profession leading the charge for reforms to our justice system, we have attorneys patting themselves on the back and telling us that everything is fine and that they self police themselves so please leave them alone.
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